RoboHelp
How Start to Learn RoboHelp?
Adobe RoboHelp is one of the coolest applications you’ll ever use as a technical communicator. It’s like the “Swiss army knife” of document-creation software. I’ve been using for almost 20 years now and I’m still busy discovering different options and capabilities every time I use it. You can create not only HTML help files with…
Read MoreHow to Compare Multiple Outputs of RoboHelp and FrameMaker
I’ve made a test to compare Multiple Outputs of RoboHelp and FrameMaker. I generated different output versions of the same simple file both by using Adobe FrameMaker and then Adobe RoboHelp. Since these two great products are sold as part of Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite, I wanted to see what would one lose without RoboHelp…
Read MoreHow to Add New Topics to an Adobe RoboHelp Project
There are three methods to add a new topic to a new Adobe RoboHelp 11 project: Create it from scratch Link it Import it Creating from Scratch 1) In your RH11 project, select File > New > Topic from the main menu to display the New Topic dialog box: You can also click the New…
Read MoreHow to Create a New Project in Adobe RoboHelp
1) Launch Adobe RoboHelp. 2) Select “Blank Project” from the Create New menu on the Starter page to display the New Project Wizard: 3) Enter the Title of the project which automatically creates a File Name and a Location for the project. Edit them manually if you must by changing the file name and browsing for…
Read MoreHow to Apply the Same Master Page to all the Topics in a RoboHelp Project
Let’s say you have hundreds or perhaps thousands of topics in your RoboHelp help project. You discover some of the topics display your master page but others don’t. Here is how you can apply the master page to all the topics in one step. CAUTION: Make sure you identify the pages (like the Front Cover…
Read MoreFrameMaker – RoboHelp Integration – when to preserve modifications to a RoboHelp file?
© Ugur Akinci If you prepare your source files in FrameMaker and then import (or rather, link) them to a RoboHelp project like I do, there is one feature that you should pay attention to. When you bring in a source file and then save it in RH, the application displays the following warning message:…
Read MoreTwo Ways to Work with Conditional Text Tags in RoboHelp and FrameMaker
Conditional text tags are at the heart of “single sourcing integration” between Adobe RoboHelp (RH) and Adobe FrameMaker (FM), especially if you are using FM in the unstructured mode. Even though it is possible to create your source files in RH and then use RH10 or RH11’s many delivery formats including PDF and HTML, a…
Read MoreHow to Publish for Multiple Devices with "Responsive HTML5 Layout" by Using Adobe RoboHelp 11
How to Test the Map IDs of a RoboHelp Context Sensitive HTML Help File
© Ugur Akinci All context sensitive help files have each individual help topic assigned a Map ID number. The programmers code that ID into the application so that when a user presses the F1 button in a topic screen, the application reads the Map ID of the topic and displays the correct topic that corresponds…
Read MoreHow to Display the Contents Tab (TOC) in a Compiled Robohelp HTML Help File
Follow the directions in this post to display the Contents Tab (TOC) in a compiled Robohelp HTML Help File. If you compile a Robohelp .CHM (pronounced “chum”) HTML help file and do NOT see your CONTENTS tab (TOC) anywhere, don’t panic. There is actually a very simple reason why the CONTENTS tab does not display: you have…
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